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...hard-fought gains of school integration are eroding, according to a study by Harvard's Civil Rights Project. More than 70% of black students attend schools that have more than 50% minority enrollment, compared with 63% in 1980; 36.5% of these students attend schools with a minority enrollment of 90% to 100%, compared with 32.5% in 1986. The same trends apply to Latinos. Among the most segregated states are New York, Michigan, Illinois, California and Texas...
...know things in Washington are grinding to a halt for George W. Bush when he's got to make a hard-fought compromise with his own brother...
...Arsenic and Bad Beef" [PUBLIC EYE, April 16], columnist Margaret Carlson asked, "Where's the compassion that was supposed to go with Bush's conservatism?" Good question. Bush and his rapacious followers are doing their best to reverse years of hard-fought progressive measures designed to protect people and preserve our environment. I have two questions of my own: Where's the outrage, and where the heck is Al Gore? AL DALE Atlanta...
...which has managed to conclude a recent trade agreement with China but has not formalized a single free-trade agreement in its own hemisphere since ratifying NAFTA in 1994. The stumbling blocks have included politically potent U.S. labor and agricultural lobbies that believe unrestrained tariff cutting will undermine the hard-fought gains in living standards won by their members. Try to get U.S. trade negotiators to discuss eliminating sugar subsidies or lowering steel tariffs, and "they won't address the question face to face," complains Antonio Simões, the head of Brazil's trade negotiating team...
...hard-fought 2-2 tie with Princeton on Saturday left the Crimson's spot unchanged, but a little shuffling around the ECAC kept Harvard in third place, a feat remarkably predicted by the ECAC Media Preseason Poll back in September...